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FROM 2018 - Call for Papers
by Stefan Ciobaca 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

[Apologies for multiple copies] FROM 2018 - First Call for Papers WORKING FORMAL METHODS SYMPOSIUM (FROM) http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ 18 - 20 June 2018 Faculty of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi, Romania Deadline for extended abstract submissions: 29 April 2018 Invited speakers who confirmed: see the web page of the event: http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018/ Aims and Scope Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify, verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle: requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks. FROM 2018 is organized by the Faculty of Computer Science at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest. FROM 2018 is the second event in a a yearly workshop series. The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest (see http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017) and it included sixteen invited talks, delivered by top researchers in field, and seven contributed talks. Starting with the current edition, the goal is to increase the weight of the contributed talks. The Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods, techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions. PhD Students are highly encouraged to participate and support for accommodation might be available upon request. The program of the symposium will include invited lectures and regular contributions. Submissions on the general topic of theoretical computer science, formal methods and applications are solicited. Areas and formalisms of interest include: - Category theory in computer science - Distributed systems and concurrency - Formal languages and automata theory - Formal modelling, verification and testing - Logic in computer science - Logical frameworks - Mathematical structures in computer science - Models of computation - Semantics of programming languages - Type systems Methods of interest include: - Automated reasoning and model generation - Automated induction - Certified programs - Data-flow and control-flow analysis - Deductive verification - Mechanized proofs - Model checking - Proof mining - Symbolic computation - Term rewriting Applications of interest include: - Computational logic - Computer mathematics - Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases - Program analysis - Verification and synthesis of software and hardware - Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing Submissions Regular contributions will be based on an extended abstract of maximum 4 pages, except references, formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 The extended abstracts should be submitted before 29 April 2018, via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from2018 The notification of acceptance will be received by 21 May 2018. Depending on the number and the quality of submissions, we will invite the authors of selected contributions to submit extended versions to a special issue of a well-ranked peer-reviewed journal.

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Microservices: Science and Engineering - Workshop CFP @ STAF 2018
by Antonio Bucchiarone 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

MSE@STAF 2018 ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Microservices: Science and Engineering - MSE 2018 June 25, 2018 ENSEEIHT – IRIT, Toulouse Cedex - France http://mse-staf18.fbk.eu/ ======================================================================= AIMS AND MOTIVATION This workshop aims at bringing together contributions by scientists and practitioners to shed light on the development of scientific concepts, technologies, engineering techniques and tools for a service-based society. In particular, the focus is on Microservices, i.e., the use of services beyond the traditional cross-organizational B2B approach and the implementation of the model inside of applications, scaling in the small the concepts previously seen in the large. In Microservices, each component of a software is a service with the related issues of scalability and distribution of responsibility. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of Service-oriented Architectures and Microservices - Software engineering techniques for Microservices - Requirements Engineering for Microservices - Model-Driven Engineering for Microservices - Security in Microservices - Formal models and analyses of Microservice systems - Validation and Verification techniques for Microservices - Coordination models for Microservices - Empirical studies on services and Microservices - Programming languages for Microservices - Static analysis of Microservices - Testing of Microservice systems - Migration to Microservices - Adaptation and Evolution of Microservices SCOPE This workshop constitutes a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest ongoing research as well as radical new research directions that represent challenging innovations, which can advance the status quo and the understanding in the Microservices area and its applications, in particular in the IoT and IoS where the scaling in the small approach is of major importance. We believe that STAF attendees might be interested in attending this workshop because of the relevance of its themes and goals to the Software Engineering (SE) and Formal Methods (FM). Also, industry partners and mobile developers are particularly welcome, thanks to their more practical approach, hopefully bringing some real scenario examples. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 16, 2018 Workshop paper submission: April 23, 2018 Workshop paper notification: May 25, 2018 Workshop: June 25, 2018 INTENDED PAPER FORMAT The workshop welcomes research papers, experience papers and tool presentations; nevertheless, papers describing novel research contributions and innovative applications are of particular interest. Contributions can be: * Regular papers (maximum 15 pages): In this category fall those contributions which propose novel research contributions, address challenging problems with innovative ideas, or offer practical contributions in the application of FM and SE approaches for building future applications in the field of Microservices. Regular papers should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential benefits of the contribution. * Short papers (maximum 8 pages): This category includes tool demonstrations, position papers, industrial experiences and case-studies, well-pondered and sufficiently documented visionary papers. Authors of papers reporting industrial experiences are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case-study papers should describe significant case-studies and the complete development should be made available for use by reviewers. Tool demonstration papers should explain enhancements made in comparison to previously published work. Authors of demonstration papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS and REVIEW CRITERIA We seek for both regular and short papers. Papers will be submitted as PDF files, using the SPRINGER LNCS proceedings format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) with a page limit of 15 pages. Short paper should be limited to 8 pages. Accepted papers of the MSE workshop will be published in a LNCS post-proceedings edited by the STAF Workshop co-chairs. You can submit the paper through EasyChair using this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mse20180 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Antonio Bucchiarone (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) – bucchiarone(a)fbk.eu Sophie Ebersold (IRIT, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France) Florian Galinier (IRIT, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Carlo Bellettini, University of Milan, Italy Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Matteo Camilli, University of Milan, Italy Martina De Sanctis, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Nicola Dragoni, Technical University of Denmark and Örebro University, Sweden Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Madalina Erascu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Luca Ferrucci, ISTI-CNR, Italy Martin Garriga, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina Silvio Ghilardi, University of Milan, Italy Holger Giese, HPI, Germany Md. Ariful Islam, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA Cruz-Filipe Luis University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Fabrizio Montesi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Sébastien Mosser, University of Nice, France Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L’Aquila, Italy Larisa Safina, Innopolis University, Russia Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Angelo Spognardi, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Sung-Shik T. Q. Jongmans Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Manuel Wimmer, TU Wien, Austria -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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CFP 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SMART ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, December 2018
by Marina Gavrilova 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

IEEE iSES 2018 - DEADLINE: July 20, 2018 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SMART ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS December 17-19, 2018, Hyderabad, India (Formerly IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (iNIS)) (http://www.ieee-ises.org) The primary objective of IEEE-iSES 2018 is to provide a platform for both hardware and software researchers to interact under one umbrella for further development of smart electronic systems. Efficient and secure data sensing, storage, and processing play pivotal roles in current information age. The state-of-the-art smart electronic systems cater to the needs of efficient sensing, storage, and computing. At the same time, efficient algorithms and software used for faster analysis and retrieval of desired information are becoming increasingly important. Big data which are large, complex data sets, are now a part of the Internet world. Storing and processing needs of the enormous amount of structured and unstructured data are getting increasingly challenging. At the same time, Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been evolving with simultaneous development of hardware and software and span across everyday consumer electronics. The performance and efficiency of the present as well as the future generations of computing and information processing systems are largely dependent upon advances in both hardware and software. iSES 2018 is sponsored by IEEE-CS under TCVLSI. iSES has been initiated as a sponsored meeting of Technical Committee on VLSI, IEEE-CS (http://www.ieee-tcvlsi.org/) that endorses a league of successful meetings such as ASAP, ISVLSI, ARITH, etc., which are now presented as "Sister Conferences" in the iSES website. iSES brings together leading scientists and researchers from academia and industry. Contributions are sought in (but are not limited to) the following areas: (1) Nanoelectronic VLSI and Sensor Systems (NVS) (2) Energy-Efficient, Reliable VLSI Systems (ERS) (3) Hardware/Software for Internet of Things (IOT) and Consumer Electronics (CE) (4) Hardware for Secure Information Processing (SIP) (5) Hardware/Software Solutions for Big Data (SBD) (6) Cyber Physical Systems and Social Networks (CSN) Detailed description of the tracks is provided in theISESwebsite. iNIS 2018 proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS conference publication services (CPS). Authors are invited to submit full-length (6 pages maximum), original, unpublished research papers with an abstract (200 words maximum). Papers violating length would be excluded from the review process. Previously published papers or papers currently under review for other conferences/journals should not be submitted and will not be considered for publication. Authors should submit their original work of maximum 6 pages using double-column IEEE-CS conference format-template (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) A selected papers from iSES 2018 program will be invited for submission to a peer-reviewed journal special issue based on reviewer feedback and quality of conference presentation. Paper Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ises2018 Important dates of iSES2018 are the following: ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: July 20, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2018 Submission of Final Version: October 10, 2018 Special Sessions and Panels (SSP): iSES 2018 will consider proposals for special sessions as well as panels. Special session and panel proposals/papers can be submitted to "Special Sessions and Panels" track at the online submission link. The submission deadline is the same as specified for the regular paper submissions. All accepted special session papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Student Research Forum (SRF): iSES 2018 will host a student research forum. Authors should submit their original unpublished work of maximum 4 pages using IEEE-CS double-column conference format-template. Manuscripts in PDF format with author information (optional) should be submitted to the "Student Research Forum" track at the online submission link. The submission deadline is the same as specified for the regular paper submissions. All the accepted student research symposium papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Award Information: 3 student travel awards of $250 each for travel to iSES 2018. In addition, $150 for the best paper award. Following is the summary: (1) 3 TCVLSI Student Travel Award ($250 each) (2) 1 TCVLSI Best Paper Award ($150 each) --------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: ------------ M.B Srinivas, BML Munjal University, India Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Program Chairs: ------------ Himanshu Thapliyal, University of Kentucky, USA Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada P.V. Anand Mohan, CDAC, India Publication Chair: ------------ Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Saurabh Kotiyal, Synopsys, Inc., USA Web Chair: ------------ Dhruva Ghai, Oriental University, India Publicity Chairs: ------------ Wei Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong Kamalakanta Mahapatra, NIT Rourkela, India Neha Yadav, BML Munjal University, India Brij Gupta, NIT Kurukshetra, India Alak Majumdar, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India Local Arrangement Chair: ------------ Dibakar RoyChowdary, Mahindra Ecole, India Special Session Chairs: ------------ Saket Srivastava, University of Lincoln, UK Anirban Sengupta, IIT Indore, India K. Subbarangaiah, Veda IIT, India Student Research Forum Chairs: ------------ Binsu Kailath, IIITDM Kancheepuram, India V S Kanchana Bhaaskaran, VIT University, India Manish Goswami, IIIT Allahabad, India Finance Chair: ------------ Bhargav Rajaram, Mahindra Ecole, India Registration Chair: ------------ Dibakar RoyChowdary, Mahindra Ecole, India Industry Liaison Chair: ------------ Rajnish Bajpai, Synopsys, Inc., USA Aditya Ramamurthy, Service Now, India Himabindu, Wipro, India Steering Committee: ----------- Saraju P. Mohanty, University of North Texas, USA, Chair Dhruva Ghai, Oriental University, India, Vice Chair Aida Todri-Sanial, CNRS-LIRMM, France Ashok Srivastava, Louisiana State University, USA Hai (Helen) Li, University of Pittsburgh, USA Himanshu Thapliyal, University of Kentucky, USA Jia Di, University of Arkansas, USA Nabanita Das, Indian Statistical Institute, India Prasun Ghosal, IIEST, Shibpur, India Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Xin Li, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Postdoc position, Aston University, UK
by Herzallah, Randa 24 Mar '18

24 Mar '18

Dear all, A postdoc position “Harmonisation of Behavioural Dynamics of Quasi-Independent Agents of Limited Information” at Aston University, UK. A three-year postdoctoral position with competitive salary is available in the Systems Analytics Research Institute (SARI) within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University. The potential candidate has to be skilled, enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic, have a strong mathematical background, and has excellent interpersonal skills to work on an innovative research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. For further information and how to apply please follow the following link https://jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=R180111 Best regards, Randa SARI research institute, Aston University, Birmingham, Uk

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The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018)
by Massimo CAFARO 23 Mar '18

23 Mar '18

WPDM 2018 The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/ CALL FOR PAPERS As part of The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), http://www.iccsa.org July 2 - 5 2018, Melbourne, Australia Submission Deadline: April 9, 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE Selected extended versions of workshop papers will be invited to a Special Issue to appear in the Algorithms journal (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_…) SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2018 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES April 9, 2018: Deadline for paper submission April 23, 2018: Notification of Acceptance. May 6, 2018: Early-bird Registration ends. May 6, 2018: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 2-5, 2018: ICCSA 2018 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. Program Committee formation is pending and will be finalised shortly. Current TPC members: Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova, Italy Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Giuliano Laccetti, University of Naples, Italy Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle, Australia Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, University of Electro-Communications, Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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CFP, Special session - Hybrid Life: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems, ALife 2018
by Manuel Baltieri 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] ********** Call for Papers ********** Special session - Hybrid Life: Approaches to integrate biological, artificial and cognitive systems https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/ <https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/> 2018 Artificial Life conference (ALife) Tokyo, JAPAN, 23-27 July 2018 - http://2018.alife.org/ <http://2018.alife.org/> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: The main focus of ALife research is the study of natural systems with the goal of understanding what life is. More concretely, ALife defines ways to investigate processes that contribute to the formation and proliferation of living organisms. In this session we focus on three common approaches to tackle this investigation, proposing ways to integrate, extend and possibly improve them. More specifically we refer to: 1) the formalisation of the necessary properties for the definition of life, 2) the implementation of artificial agents, and 3) the study of the relation between life and cognition. For this special session we propose to start from these well-established Alife methodologies, and extend them through: a unified formal language for the description and modelling of living, as well as artificial and cognitive systems, e.g. control theory, Bayesian inference, dynamical systems theory, etc., the exploration of biological creatures enhanced by artificial systems (or artificial systems augmented with organic parts) in order to investigate the boundaries between living and nonliving organisms, and the evaluation of coupled biological-artificial systems that could shed light on the importance of interactions among systems for the study of living and cognitive organisms. This special sessions aims to invite contributions from the fields of psychology, computational neuroscience, HCI, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, robotics and cognitive science to discuss current research on the formalisation, combination and interaction of artificial/living/cognitive systems from theoretical, modelling and implementational perspectives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Formalisation of life and cognition (e.g. dynamical systems theory, stochastic optimal control, Bayesian inference, etc.) Cognitive robotics Autopoiesis Life-mind continuity thesis Systems biology Origins-of-life theories with relationships to artificial and cognitive systems Animal-robot interaction Bio-inspired robotics Bio-integrated robotics Human-machine interaction Augmented cognition Sensory substitution Interactive evolutionary computation Artificial perception Important Dates 19th March 2018 – Paper submission deadline 23rd April 2018 – Paper acceptance notification 21st May 2018 – Camera-ready version 23-27th July 2018 – Artificial Life conference (ALife), Tokyo, Japan Paper Submission Papers and abstracts submitted to this special sessions will be reviewed by a selected group of experts from the a-life community as well as from other areas key to our proposal, specifically chosen for this review process. If you are submitting to a special session you will be given the opportunity to select it during the submission process. Submissions to special sessions follow the same format, instructions and deadlines of regular ALife papers. Organizers Manuel Baltieri, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. m.baltieri(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:m.baltieri@sussex.ac.uk> Keisuke Suzuki, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. k.suzuki(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:filippo.m.bianchi@uit.no> Hiryuki IIzuka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan hiroyukiiizuka(a)gmail.com <mailto:hiroyukiiizuka@gmail.com> Contacts For questions, enquiries and more information please check our website https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/ <https://sites.google.com/view/hybrid-life/> or get in touch with m.baltieri(a)sussex.ac.uk <mailto:m.baltieri@sussex.ac.uk>. All the best, -- Manuel Baltieri, EASy group Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Twitter: @manuelbaltieri

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Deadline extended - 15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018)
by Giovanni Livraga 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

CALL FOR PAPERS *** Submission deadline extended to April 3, 2018 *** ************************************************************************ 15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018) Porto, Portugal, 26-28 July 2018 http://secrypt.icete.org ************************************************************************ SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018) will be held in Porto, Portugal on 26-28 July 2018. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security requirements Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://www.insticc.org/primoris/. Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categor sy of "short paper". Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: April 3, 2018 [extended] - Authors Notification: May 14, 2018 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 28, 2018 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 27, 2018 - Authors Notification: June 5, 2018 - Camera Ready and Registration: June 18, 2018 PROGRAM CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE [to be completed] Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States Alessandro Armando, FBK, Italy Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Dario Catalano, Università di Catania, Italy Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France Jun Dai, California State University, United States Sabrina de Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain William M. Fitzgerald, Johnson Controls (Tyco), Ireland Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom Angelo Genovese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Yantian Hou, Boise State University, United States Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research Inc., Japan Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Jiguo Li, Hohai University, China Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, United States Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Fabio Martinelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Carlos Maziero, UFPR - Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, United States Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, United States Sushmita Ruj, Indian Institute of Technology, India Nuno Santos, INESC, Portugal Andreas Schaad, Huawei European Research Center, Germany Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway - University of London, United Kingdom Basit Shafiq, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Vicenc Torra, University of Skövde, Sweden Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers Business School, United States Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy Xinyuan (Frank) Wang, George Mason University, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Edgar Weippl, SBA & FHSTP, Austria Meng Yu, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States Jiawei Yuan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States Lei Zhang, Thomson Reuters, United States For any questions, please contact the program chair: pierangela.samarati(a)unimi.it

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Call for Papers: CD-MAKE 2018
by res.mb.conference 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

---- Call for Papers ---- International IFIP Cross Domain Conference for Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction CD-MAKE in Hamburg (Germany) August 27 - August 30, 2018 https://cd-make.net CD stands for Cross-Domain and means the integration and appraisal of different fields and application domains (e.g. Health, Industry 4.0, AAL, Automotive Engineering etc.) to provide an atmosphere to foster different perspectives and opinions. The conference is dedicated to offer an international platform without any boundaries for novel ideas and a fresh look on the methodologies to put crazy ideas into Business for the benefit of the human. Serendipity is a desired effect, and shall cross-fertilize methodologies and transfer of algorithmic developments. MAKE stands for MAchine Learning & Knowledge Extraction. CD-MAKE is a joint effort of IFIP TC 5, IFIP WG 8.4, IFIP WG 8.9 and IFIP WG 12.9 and is held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). Keynote Speakers are Neil D. LAWRENCE (Amazon) and Marta MILO (University of Sheffield). IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing and the leading multi-national, non-governmental, apolitical organization in Information & Communications Technologies and Computer Sciences, is recognized by the United Nations and was established in the year 1960 under the auspices of the UNESCO as an outcome of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Papers are sought from the following seven topical areas. Papers which deal with fundamental questions and theoretical aspects in machine learning are very welcome. 1) DATA - Data science (data fusion, preprocessing, mapping, knowledge representation), 2) LEARNING - Machine learning algorithms, 3) VISUALIZATION - and visual analytics 4) PRIVACY - data protection, safety, security, ethics, acceptance and social issues of ML 5) NETWORK - graphical models, graph-based ML 6) TOPOLOGY - geometrical machine learning, topological data analysis 7) ENTROPY - time and machine learning, entropy-based ML Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: April, 30, 2018 Author Notification: June, 01, 2018 Author Registration (latest): June, 15, 2018 Camera Ready (hard deadline!): June 27, 2018 Conference: August 27 - 30, 2018 The CD-MAKE Submission System (EasyChair) can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdmake2018 2017 Accepted Papers have been published by Springer LNCS. Outstanding contributions will be invited to special issues of journals (see Website - special sessions). ---- Call for Papers due to April 1, 2018 ----

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Call for Papers: ARES 2018, Deadline Extension
by res.mb.conference 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

ARES 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline until March 30, 2018 ****************************************************************************************** The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018) August 27 - August 30, 2018, Hamburg, Germany http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** ICS-CSR 2018 (https://ics-csr.com/) & CD-MAKE 2018 (https://cd-make.net/) co-located with ARES! *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. Qualis (backed by Brazilian Ministry) ranked ARES and Esorics as leading security conference in Europe (A2). Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals (e.g. Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security). The acceptance rate of the ARES 2017 conference was 24% (full papers only). ARES 2017 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ************ HIGHLIGHTS ************ Confirmed Keynote Speakers: - Joan Daemen, Radboud University, Security Architect at ST Microelectronics - Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning Group TU Berlin, MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, and Korea University, Seoul Social Events: We are looking forward to taking you on an evening cruise leading from the impressive harbor area through the narrow canals of the famous Speicherstadt. Another highlight will be this year´s conference dinner taking place right at the heart of Hamburg´s historical port area. The masonry of the Experience Warehouse combines comfort with the flair of ancient merchant tradition. You will also get the chance to experience the worldwide known Miniature Wonderland<https://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/>. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairs 2018 Mathias Fischer, Universität Hamburg, Germany Dominik Herrmann, Universität Hamburg, Germany Program Committee Chairs 2018 Christian Doerr, TU Delft, Netherlands Sebastian Schrittwieser, FH St. Pölten, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to March 30, 2018 23:59 UTC-11 Author Notification: May 30, 2018 Proceedings Version: June 29, 2018 Conference: August 27 - August 30, 2018 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2018 will be published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: -full paper (10 pages) -short paper (6 pages) -workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2018 More information can be found here: ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, United States Abdelmalek Benzekri, University of Toulouse, France Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil David Chadwick, University of Kent, United Kingdom Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Jörg Daubert, TU Darmstadt, Germany Luca De Cicco, Politecnico di Bari, Italy José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Pavlos Efraimidis Democritus, University of Thrace, Greece Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Universitá degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Lorena Gonzalez-Manzano, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Sheikh Mahbub Habib, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Anatoli Kalysch, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, NTNU: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ralf Kuesters, University of Stuttgart, Germany Oksana Kulyk, TU Darmstadt, Germany Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse, France Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Luh, Institute of IT Security Research, Austria Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Michael Roßberg, TU Ilmenau, Germany Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, United States Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Daniele Sgandurra, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Jordi Soria-Comas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale University, United States Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, TU Darmstadt Germany Umberto Villano, Universita' del Sannio, Italy Corrado Aaron, Visaggio Univeristà del Sannio, Italy Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Availability, Dependability, and Resilience Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications Dependability Aspects of e-Government Dependability and Resilience in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding and Steganograhpy Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues related to Security and Privacy Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods Resilience and Security for Critical Infrastructures Resilience of Computing Systems Resilience, Security, and Privacy for Smart Grids Resilience, Security, and Privacy for the Internet of Things RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management Wireless Security

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[Call for Papers] Brain Informatics 2018
by Yang 21 Mar '18

21 Mar '18

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI'18) December 7-9, 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA Homepage: http://uta.engineering/conferences/bi-2018/ ---Advancing BI Technologies from Basic Science Research to Real-World Practice--- ============================================== Workshop/Special Session/Tutorial Proposals Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018 Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2018 ============================================== The International Conference on Brain Informatics series (BI) has established itself as the world’s premier research forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, information communication technologies, and neuroimaging technologies with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Brain Informatics. The BI'18 will provide a broad forum that academia, professionals and industry people can exchange their ideas, findings, and strategies in brain informatics research and brain-inspired concepts and technologies. It welcomes emerging technologies for addressing fundamental neurobiological questions about healthy brain function, laying the groundwork for advancing treatments for brain disorders or injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" artificial intelligence and computing technologies to meet future societal needs. It will educate and expand the brain informatics workforce and create new career opportunities for brain research and related innovations. The BI'18 welcomes paper submissions (full paper and abstract submissions). Both research and application papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings by Springer LNCS/LNAI (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319707716) Workshop, Special-Session and Tutorial proposals, and Industry/Demo-Track papers are also welcome. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148) *** Topics and Areas *** Track 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science Track 2: Investigations of Human Information Processing Systems Track 3: Brain Big Data Analytics, Curation and Management Track 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Track 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Inspired Computing IMPORTANT DATES: ================ May 1, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session/Tutorial proposals May 31, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session proposal acceptance June 15, 2018: Submission deadline for full papers July 30, 2018: Submission deadline for workshop/special session papers August 15, 2018: Notification of full paper acceptance August 30, 2018: Notification of workshop/special session paper acceptance August 1, 2018: Submission deadline for abstracts August 30, 2018: Notification of abstract acceptance December 7, 2018: Tutorials, workshops and special sessions December 8-9, 2018: Main conference PAPER SUBMISSIONS & PUBLICATIONS: ================================= TYPE-I (Full Paper Submissions): Papers need to have up to 10 pages in LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All full length papers accepted (and all special sessions' full length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the series of LNCS/LNAI. TYPE-II (Abstract Submissions): Abstracts have a word limit of 500 words. Experimental research is particularly welcome. Accepted abstract submissions will be included in the conference program, and will be published as a single, collective proceedings volume. Title: Include in the title of the abstract all words critical for a subject index. Write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title. Author: List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Be prepared to submit contact information as well as conflict of interest information for each author listed. Abstract: Enter the body of the abstract and attach any applicable graphic files or tables here. Do not re-enter the title, author, support, or other information that is collected in other steps of the submission form. Presentation Preference: Authors may select from three presentation formats when submitting an abstract: "poster only", "talk preferred" or "no preference". The "talk preferred" selection indicates that you would like to give a talk, but will accept a poster format if necessary. Marking "poster only" indicates that you would not like to be considered for an oral-presentation session. Selecting "no preference" indicates the author's willingness to be placed in the best format for the program. Each paper or abstract requires one sponsoring attendee (i.e. someone who registered and is attending the conference). A single attendee can not sponsor more than two abstracts or papers. Oral presentations will be selected from both full length papers and abstracts. *** Post-Conference Journal Publications *** The Brain Informatics conferences have the formal ties with the Open Access Brain Informatics journal (Springer-Nature, http://www.springer.com/40708) Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Open Access Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. No article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference. *** Awards *** Best Paper awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best student paper. ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Leon Iasemidis (Louisiana Tech, University, USA) Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Program Committee Chairs Jianzhong Su (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Vicky Yamamoto (University of South California, USA) Yu-Ping Wang (Tulane University, USA) Organizing Chairs Shouyi Wang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Erick Jones (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Fenghua Tian (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Workshop/Special-Session Chairs Chou, Chun-An (Northwestern University, USA) Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Felicia Jefferson (Fort Valley State University, USA) Jing Qin (Montana State University, USA) Panel/Tutorial Chairs Yang Yang (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan/Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, China) Vassiliy Tsytsarev (University of Maryland, USA) Publicity Chairs Paul Wen (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Huiguang He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Mufti Mahmud (University of Padova, Italy) Steering Committee Chairs Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Hanchuan Peng (Allen Institute for Brain Science, USA) *** Contact Information *** Shouyi Wang Email: shouyiw(a)uta.edu Vicky Yamamoto Email: Vicky.Yamamoto(a)med.usc.edu Yang Yang Email: yang(a)maebashi-it.org

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